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−	'''Proserpina''' or '''Persephone''' is the Roman goddess of the underworld.	+	'''Proserpina''' or '''Persephone''' is the Roman goddess of the underworld. Pluto, the god of the underworld, kidnapped Ceres's daughter, Proserpina, and took her to live with him. A single mother, Ceres felt abandoned by her daughter's absence. Proserpina ate six pomegranate seeds, an action that could have sealed her fate to live in the underworld forever. But Ceres, being a shrewd mother, was able to negotiate through Iuppiter with Pluto for her daughter's custody. Proserpina would spend half of the year with Pluto in the underworld and half of the year living with her mother. During the time Proserpina was in the underworld, Ceres was so grief-stricken that she refused to allow anything on Earth to be beautiful or fruitful, and these are the winter months. When Ceres has her daughter to look after, she is happy and the earth brought forth crops, giving food, so we have summer and the autumn harvest.

	"The Trinacrian land took its name from its shape:		"The Trinacrian land took its name from its shape:

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−	'''Proserpina''', Roman goddess of the underworld.	+	'''Proserpina''' or '''Persephone''' is the Roman goddess of the underworld.

	"The Trinacrian land took its name from its shape:		"The Trinacrian land took its name from its shape:

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−	'''Proserpina''', Roman ~~deity~~ of the underworld.	+	'''Proserpina''', Roman goddess of the underworld.

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−	'''~~Persephone~~''', ~~also known as Proserpina, and to the Greeks as Kore. She is the daughter of Ceres (known to the Greeks as Demeter). Pluto, the god~~ of the underworld~~, kidnapped Ceres's~~	+	'''Proserpina''', Roman deity of the underworld.
−	~~daughter, Proserpina, and took her to live with him. A single mother, Ceres felt abandoned by her daughter's absence. Proserpina ate six pomegranate seeds, an action that could have sealed~~	+
−	her fate to live in the underworld forever. But Ceres, being a shrewd mother, was able to negotiate through Iuppiter with Pluto for her daughter's custody. Proserpina would spend half of the year with Pluto in the underworld	+
−	~~and half of the year living with her mother. During the time Proserpina was in the underworld, Ceres was so grief-stricken that she refused to allow anything on Earth to be~~	+
−	~~beautiful or fruitful, and these are the winter months. When Ceres has her daughter to look after, she is happy and the earth brought forth crops, giving food, so we have summer and the autumn harvest~~.	+

	"The Trinacrian land took its name from its shape:		"The Trinacrian land took its name from its shape:

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	'''Persephone''', also known as Proserpina, and to the Greeks as Kore. She is the daughter of Ceres (known to the Greeks as Demeter). Pluto, the god of the underworld, kidnapped Ceres's		'''Persephone''', also known as Proserpina, and to the Greeks as Kore. She is the daughter of Ceres (known to the Greeks as Demeter). Pluto, the god of the underworld, kidnapped Ceres's
	daughter, Proserpina, and took her to live with him. A single mother, Ceres felt abandoned by her daughter's absence. Proserpina ate six pomegranate seeds, an action that could have sealed		daughter, Proserpina, and took her to live with him. A single mother, Ceres felt abandoned by her daughter's absence. Proserpina ate six pomegranate seeds, an action that could have sealed
−	her fate to live in the underworld forever. But Ceres, being a shrewd mother, was able to negotiate with Pluto for her daughter's custody. Proserpina would spend half of the year with Pluto in the underworld	+	her fate to live in the underworld forever. But Ceres, being a shrewd mother, was able to negotiate through Iuppiter with Pluto for her daughter's custody. Proserpina would spend half of the year with Pluto in the underworld
	and half of the year living with her mother. During the time Proserpina was in the underworld, Ceres was so grief-stricken that she refused to allow anything on Earth to be		and half of the year living with her mother. During the time Proserpina was in the underworld, Ceres was so grief-stricken that she refused to allow anything on Earth to be
	beautiful or fruitful, and these are the winter months. When Ceres has her daughter to look after, she is happy and the earth brought forth crops, giving food, so we have summer and the autumn harvest.		beautiful or fruitful, and these are the winter months. When Ceres has her daughter to look after, she is happy and the earth brought forth crops, giving food, so we have summer and the autumn harvest.

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−	'''~~Proserpina~~''', also known as ~~Persephone~~, and to the Greeks as Kore. She is the daughter of Ceres (known to the Greeks as Demeter). Pluto, the god of the underworld, kidnapped Ceres's	+	'''Persephone''', also known as Proserpina, and to the Greeks as Kore. She is the daughter of Ceres (known to the Greeks as Demeter). Pluto, the god of the underworld, kidnapped Ceres's
	daughter, Proserpina, and took her to live with him. A single mother, Ceres felt abandoned by her daughter's absence. Proserpina ate six pomegranate seeds, an action that could have sealed		daughter, Proserpina, and took her to live with him. A single mother, Ceres felt abandoned by her daughter's absence. Proserpina ate six pomegranate seeds, an action that could have sealed
	her fate to live in the underworld forever. But Ceres, being a shrewd mother, was able to negotiate with Pluto for her daughter's custody. Proserpina would spend half of the year with Pluto in the underworld		her fate to live in the underworld forever. But Ceres, being a shrewd mother, was able to negotiate with Pluto for her daughter's custody. Proserpina would spend half of the year with Pluto in the underworld
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	And each carry back, with me, a lapful of flowers.’		And each carry back, with me, a lapful of flowers.’
	The foolish prize enticed their girlish spirits,		The foolish prize enticed their girlish spirits,
−	And they were too busy to feel weary." - Ovid, Fasti IV	+	And they were too busy to feel weary.
		+	Proserpine herself plucked fragile crocuses and white lilies.
		+	Intent on gathering them, she gradually strayed,
		+	And none of her friends chanced to follow their lady.
		+	Dis, her uncle saw her, and swiftly carried her off,
		+	And bore her on shadowy horses to his realm.
		+	She called out: `Oh, dearest Mother, I'm being
		+	Carried away!' and tore at the breast of her robe:
		+	Meanwhile a path opened for Dis, since his horses
		+	Can scarcely endure the unaccustomed daylight.
		+	When her crowd of friends had gathered their flowers,
		+	They shouted: `Persephone, come for your gifts!'
		+	But silence met their call: they filled the hills with their cries,
		+	And sadly beat their naked breasts with their hands.
		+	Ceres was startled by their grief (she'd just now come from Enna),
		+	And cried instantly `Ah me! Daughter, where are you?'
		+	She rushed about, distracted, as we've heard
		+	The Thracian Maenads run with flowing hair.
		+	As a cow bellows, when her calf's torn from her udder,
		+	And goes searching for her child, through the woods,
		+	So the goddess groaned freely, and ran quickly,
		+	As she made her way, Enna, from your plains.
		+	There she found marks of the girlish feet, and saw
		+	Where her familiar form had printed the ground:
		+	Perhaps her wandering would have ended that day,
		+	If wild pigs hadn't muddied the trail she found." - Ovid, Fasti IV

	"Plouton fell in love with Persephone, and with Zeus' help secretly		"Plouton fell in love with Persephone, and with Zeus' help secretly

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−	'''Proserpina''', n.	+	'''Proserpina''', also known as Persephone, and to the Greeks as Kore. She is the daughter of Ceres (known to the Greeks as Demeter). Pluto, the god of the underworld, kidnapped Ceres's
		+	daughter, Proserpina, and took her to live with him. A single mother, Ceres felt abandoned by her daughter's absence. Proserpina ate six pomegranate seeds, an action that could have sealed
		+	her fate to live in the underworld forever. But Ceres, being a shrewd mother, was able to negotiate with Pluto for her daughter's custody. Proserpina would spend half of the year with Pluto in the underworld
		+	and half of the year living with her mother. During the time Proserpina was in the underworld, Ceres was so grief-stricken that she refused to allow anything on Earth to be
		+	beautiful or fruitful, and these are the winter months. When Ceres has her daughter to look after, she is happy and the earth brought forth crops, giving food, so we have summer and the autumn harvest.
		+
		+	"The Trinacrian land took its name from its shape:
		+	It runs out in three rocky capes to the vast ocean.
		+	It’s a place dear to Ceres. She owns, there, many cities,
		+	Among them fertile Enna, with its well-ploughed soul.
		+	Cool Arethusa gathered together the mothers of the gods:
		+	And the yellow-haired goddess came to the sacred feast.
		+	Her daughter, Persephone, attended by girls, as ever,
		+	Wandered barefoot through Enna’s meadows.
		+	In a shadow-filled valley there’s a place,
		+	Wet by the copious spray from a high fall.
		+	All the colours of nature were displayed there,
		+	And the earth was bright with hues of various flowers.
		+	On seeing it she cried: ‘Come here to me, my friends,
		+	And each carry back, with me, a lapful of flowers.’
		+	The foolish prize enticed their girlish spirits,
		+	And they were too busy to feel weary." - Ovid, Fasti IV
		+
		+	"Plouton fell in love with Persephone, and with Zeus' help secretly
		+	kidnapped her. Ceres roamed the earth over in search of her, by day
		+	and by night with torches. When she learned from the Hermionians that
		+	Plouton had kidnapped her, enraged at the gods she left the sky, and
		+	in the likeness of a woman made her way to Eleusis. She first sat upon
		+	the rock that has come to be called Agelasttos after her, beside the
		+	well called Kallikhoron. Then she went to the house of Keleus, the
		+	current ruler of the Eleusinians. After the woman inside invited her
		+	to sit with them, one old granny named Iambe joked with the goddess
		+	and got her to smile. For this reason they say that the women at the
		+	Thesmophoria joke and jest. Metaneira, the wife of Keleus, had a baby, which was given to Demeter
		+	to nurse. Wishing to make it immortal, she would set the baby in the
		+	fire at night and remove its mortal flesh. But because Demophon (the
		+	baby's name) grew so wondrously each day, Metaneira kept an eye on
		+	him, and when she spied him being buried in the fire she screamed. The
		+	child was thereupon destroyed by the fire, and the goddess revealed
		+	her true identity. When Zeus commanded Plouton to send Persephone back up, Plouton gave
		+	her a pomegranate seed to eat, as assurance that she would not remain
		+	long with her mother. With no foreknowledge of the outcome of her act,
		+	she consumed it. Askalaphos, the son of Akheron and Gorgyra, bore
		+	witness against her, in punishment for which Demeter pinned him down
		+	with a heavy rock in Hades' realm. But Persephone was obliged to spend
		+	a third of each year with Plouton, and the remainder of the year among
		+	the gods." - Apollodorus, The Library 1.29
		+
		+	"Pluto asked from Jove that he give him in marriage Ceres' daughter
		+	and his own. Jove said that Ceres would not permit her daughter to
		+	live in gloomy Tartarus, but bade him seize her as she was gathering
		+	flowers on Mount Etna, which is in Sicily. While Proserpina was
		+	gathering flowers with Venus, Diana, and Minerva, Pluto came in his
		+	four-horse chariot, and seized her. Afterwards Ceres obtained from
		+	Jove permission for her to stay half of the year with her, and half
		+	with Pluto." - Hyginus, Fabulae 146



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−	'''~~Persephone~~''', ~~also known as Proserpina and by the Greeks as Kore, the daughter of Ceres, known to the Greeks as Demeter, goddess of the grain~~.	+	'''Proserpina''', n.

−	~~One day Kore was gathering~~
−	~~flowers in the flelds of Nysa with her companions when she suddenly~~
−	~~noticed a narcissus of striking beauty. She ran to pick it, but as she~~
−	~~bent down to do so the earth gaped open and Hades appeared. He seized~~
−	~~her and dragged her with him down into the depths of the earth.~~
−	~~According to another tradition, the abduction of Kore took place on~~
−	~~the heights near the town of Enna in Sicily. And in the neighbourhood~~
−	~~of Syracuse they showed the place where Hades plunged back into the~~
−	~~earth, hollowing out a huge cave in the process, since filled by~~
−	~~waters from the spring of Cyane. Colonus in Attica, Hermione in~~
−	~~Argolis, Pheneus in Arcadia and even Crete also claimed to be the location of the abduction.~~
−
−	~~Demeter meanwhile had heard her child's despairing cry for help.~~
−	~~'Then,' says the poet of the Homeric hymn, 'bitter sorrow seized her~~
−	~~heart...Over her shoulders she threw a sombre veil and flew like a~~
−	~~bird over land and sea, seeking here, seekíng there...' For nine days~~
−	~~the goddess searched across the world, bearing flaming torches in her~~
−	~~hands. At last on Hecate's advice, she went to consult the divine~~
−	~~Helios who revealed to her the name of her daughter's ravísher. 'No~~
−	~~other god is guilty,' he said to her, 'but Zeus himself, who awarded~~
−	~~thy daughter to his brother Hades so that he might call her his~~
−	~~flowering bride.' This revelation overwhelmed Demeter. In rage and~~
−	~~despair she withdrew from Olympus and in the guise of an old woman~~
−	~~sought refuge among the cities of men.~~
−
−	~~Still inconsolable at the loss of her daughter, Demeter retired to her~~
−	~~temple at Eleusis. There 'she prepared for mankind a cruel and~~
−	~~terrible year: the earth refused to give forth any crop. Then would~~
−	~~the entire human race have perished of cruel, biting hunger if Zeus~~
−	~~had not been concerned.' He hastened to send his messenger Iris to~~
−	~~Demeter, but without success. Then all the gods came one by one to~~
−	~~beg the goddess to allow the earth to give forth its abundance. She said no, not unless she saw her daughter again.~~
−	~~There was no solution except to give in. Zeus commanded Hermes to~~
−	~~descend into the kingdom of Hades and obtain Hades' promise to return~~
−	~~young Kore - who since her arrival in the underworld had taken the~~
−	~~name Persephone - to her mother. Hades complied with the will of Zeus,~~
−	~~but before sending his wife up to earth tempted her to eat a few~~
−	~~pomegranate seeds. Now this fruit was a symbol of marriage and the~~
−	~~effect of eating it was to tender the union of man and wife indissoluble.~~
−
−	When Persephone returned to the world of light her mother Demeter was delighted to be reunited with her daughter again. Her delight was tarnished upon learning that, in contradiction to Zeus' command, Persephone had eaten the six pomegranate seeds, and was condemned to return to Pluto's kingdom. Demeter was about to lose her daughter, and threatened Zeus to make the earth barren forever if Zeus allowed this to happen.
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−	~~As a compromise Zeus decided that Persephone should live with her~~
−	~~husband for one-third of the year and pass the other two-thirds with~~
−	~~her mother. The august Rhea herself brought this proposal to Demeter~~
−	~~who agreed to it; Demeter set aside her anger and made the soil again be~~
−	~~fertile. Before she returned to Olympus, Demeter taught the kings of the earth~~
−	~~her divine science and initiated them into her sacred mysteries.~~
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−	~~"Plouton [Hades] fell in love with Persephone, and with Zeus' help~~
−	~~secretly kidnapped her. Demeter roamed the earth over in search of~~
−	~~her, by day and by night with torches. When she learned from the~~
−	~~Hermionians that Plouton had kidnapped her, enraged at the gods she~~
−	~~left the sky, and in the likeness of a woman made her way to Eleusis~~
−	~~...When Zeus commanded Plouton to send Kore [Persephone] back up,~~
−	~~Plouto gave her a pomegranate seed to eat, as assurance that she would~~
−	~~not remain long with her mother. With no foreknowledge of the outcome~~
−	~~of her act, she consumed it. Askalaphos, the son of Akheron and~~
−	~~Gorgyra, bore witness against her, in punishment for which Demeter~~
−	~~pinned him down with a heavy rock in Haides' realm. But Persephone was~~
−	~~obliged to spend a third of each year with Plouton, and the remainder~~
−	~~of the year among the gods." - Apollodorus, The Library 1.29~~
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−	~~"He [Hades] with Demeter's girl [Persephone] captive, through grassy~~
−	~~plains, drawn in a four-yoked car with loosened reins, rapt over the~~
−	~~deep, impelled by love, you flew till Eleusinia's city rose to view:~~
−	~~there, in a wondrous cave obscure and deep, the sacred maid secure~~
−	~~from search you keep, the cave of Atthis, whose wide gates display an~~
−	~~entrance to the kingdoms void of day." - Orphic Hymn 18 to Plouton~~
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−	~~"Pluto asked from Iove that he give him in marriage Ceres' daughter~~
−	~~and his own. Iove said that Ceres would not permit her daughter to~~
−	~~live in gloomy Tartarus, but bade him seize her as she was gathering~~
−	~~flowers on Mount Etna, which is in Sicily. While Proserpina~~
−	~~[Persephone] was gathering flowers with Venus, Diana, and Minerva,~~
−	~~Pluto came in his four-horse chariot, and seized her. Afterwards Ceres~~
−	~~obtained from Iove permission for her to stay half of the year with~~
−	~~her, and half with Pluto." - Hyginus, Fabulae 146~~


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